Stephen E. Arnold: Amazon AI, Non-Transfer, & Future Cross-Correlation Issues

AWS AI Improves Its Accuracy According to Amazon An interesting bit of jargon creeps into “On Benchmark Data Set, Question-Answering System Halves Error Rate.” That word is “transfer.” Amazon, it seems, is trying to figure out how to reuse data, threshold settings, and workflow outputs. Think about IBM’s DeepBlue defeat of Gary Kasparov in 1996 …

Stephen E. Arnold: Amazon Loses Another Big One to Microsoft

Amazon: Some Trouble Down Under? DarkCyber noted “Case Study: Why the Australian Electoral Commission Migrated to Microsoft Azure.” On the surface, the write up is another PR output. When considered in terms of the competition between Amazon and Microsoft for juicy non commercial jobs, the article provides a check list of what’s lacking in Amazon …